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Course Overview
2:30In this course, we'll walk you through the process of converting a simple website over to Sass, the most mature and most widely used CSS preprocessor.
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Making the jump over to Sass can be an
intimidating experience.
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At first, you'll hear about variables,
mixins, extends, or
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other scary sounding things like functions
and interpolation.
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Then there's the scariest of all the
scaries, the command line.
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[SOUND] It's okay.
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I once felt the same way.
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But it doesn't have to be this way.
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If you're still not sure where to begin
when converting CSS over to Sass,
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this is the place to start.
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I'm Guil, and in this course,
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we'll walk you through how to convert a
simple website over to Sass,
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the most mature and most widely used CSS
preprocessor out there.
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And we're gonna work with a project that
we're already familiar with.
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We'll take the Lake Tahoe website,
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we built back in CSS basics, convert it to
a Sass project,
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then refactor CSS using some of the most
valuable features of Sass.
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But before we move on, let's do a quick
refresher on Sass.
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So, by now, we may know that Sass is a CSS
preprocessor, that extends CSS.
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And by preprocessor, I mean that it's a
layer that sits between the Sass
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stylesheets we write, and the CSS file we
serve to the browser.
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You see, browsers don't understand Sass
syntax.
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So that syntax needs to be translated
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into plain CSS before the browser can
actually read it.
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And that's what the Sass compiler does.
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It translates or compiles Sass to CSS.
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So, now you may be thinking, why even
bother switching over to Sass?
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What's wrong with plain old CSS?
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My workflow's fine.
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Why try to fix something that isn't
broken?
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Well, on the surface, CSS may seem like an
easy language to understand and work with.
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But the reality is, CSS can be difficult
to manage, and depending on the size of
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the project, it can be fragile,
repetitive, and tedious to work with.
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Now, this isn't a roast on CSS.
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I still appreciate plain CSS and use it on
certain projects but
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Sass empowers stylesheet authors to write
CSS the way it's meant to be written,
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clear efficient, and easily maintainable.
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Once we have our project up and
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running with Sass, we'll see how Sass can
totally change the way we write CSS,
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and make our jobs as designers and
developers a little easier.
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The goal of this course is to help clear
up common misconceptions
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you may have about Sass and help you fit
Sass into your front-end workflow.
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Hopefully, it'll make you feel more
confident about writing Sass and
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get you excited about using Sass in future
projects.
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Let's get to work.
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